What was SSWIMS?
SSWIMS was a Teacher Enhancement Program under the organizational umbrella of the UCLA Marine Science
Center and funded by National Science Foundation grant ESI 9819424 from 1999 to 2005.

What was the purpose of SSWIMS?
The disciplines of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and earth and space sciences are
inter-related. They can be more readily appreciated and better understood by elementary and secondary
school teachers and students if these disciplines, traditionally presented separately and sequentially,
are woven into an integrated standards-based curriculum using a common theme of the marine environment.
The SSWIMS program trained K-12 teachers in using a integrated standards-based curriculum using a common
theme of the marine environment

Attention: SSWIMS
Lesson Plans
We placed a few of our participants' lesson plans on the web. If you would like to view these lessons
and use them free of charge, please follow.
this link. If
you have lessons you would like to share with others, please email Peggy
Hamner .